And the winner is... - February - LGBT History Month challenge WITH PRIZES

UK LGBT History Month, that is - I know the US one is going on at the moment. But the UK one is in February, so:

during the month of February 2012, release books that:

- are written or illustrated by an LGBTQ personAND/OR- feature a positive representation of an LGBTQ person

The second point is of course rather subjective, but on the whole I am willing to take this on trust. Fiction and non-fiction books are both OK (and, for example, a biography of an LGBTQ person by a straight person would count under the second category). Wild and controlled releases are both OK, too.

There will be a prize for the person who releases most books, and I will also do a draw for a second prize from everybody who releases at least one book.

UK LGBT History Month, that is - I know the US one is going on at the moment. But the UK one is in February, so:

during the month of February 2012, release books that:

- are written or illustrated by an LGBTQ personAND/OR- feature a positive representation of an LGBTQ person

The second point is of course rather subjective, but on the whole I am willing to take this on trust. Fiction and non-fiction books are both OK (and, for example, a biography of an LGBTQ person by a straight person would count under the second category). Wild and controlled releases are both OK, too.

There will be a prize for the person who releases most books, and I will also do a draw for a second prize from everybody who releases at least one book.

but as a lesbian I would like to find more LGBT literature. I read a brilliant book called Crawling through Thorns last year http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/10247095/ - my copy is now off travelling but I'd highly recommend it if anyone can get another copy.

Just figured it out. Go to a journal entry with the rainbow ballycumber on it.With cursor on Bally, left click. This will enlarge picture leaving you with close/esc key at bottom right of enlarged pix.

Right click enlarged picture. You now have the option to save picture as. Save picture. Make JE and upload that pix.

Whew!. I just edited my #1 release to do so because I couldn't get hyphen8's links to work.

#2. Roman Blood ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/10354214/ ), by Steven Saylor, a gay author. (Some of the books in this series also feature sympathetic depictions of same-sex romance, though I don't think this particular title does.) Controlled release.

#2. Roman Blood ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/10354214/ ), by Steven Saylor, a gay author. (Some of the books in this series also feature sympathetic depictions of same-sex romance, though I don't think this particular title does.) Controlled release.

I didn't know Saylor qualified for this challenge, but I've enjoyed his Gordianus the finder books. I'll see if I have any extras lying around..

Okay, it's the annual poetry issue of a literary mag. Only color issue, and what was so neat about this was the theme was life. So about 20% of the love poems happened to be GBLT. Cool if only because it was as it should be, not noticed, not commented on, not tolerated, just is.

#7. How I Paid for College ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/8087508/ ), controlled release; the main character's bisexual and there are generally positive (if often wacky) views of several characters of differing sexualities.

#9. Arms of Nemesis, by Steven Saylor ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/10402693/ ); wild release. [The book's by a gay author, and this story includes a gay romance that's expressed positively - granted, it's between a soldier and a slave, but then this is ancient Rome we're talking about!]

#10. Are You Two Together? ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/8145871/ ), a gay and lesbian travel guide to Europe. [It does feature some not-very-gay-friendly-at-all locations, but also has lots of favorable recommendations, and some lovely anecdotes about gay couples past and present.]